Stanage pest no. 1 is mozzies.

Have you met Stanage pest no. 2? This weird old guy blatantly scrounges food off climbers. He knows we're not going anywhere and usually have biscuits/cakes/pasties. We're such easy targets...
(Galve, Son of Galve, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 11:29, 1 reply)

I think it was the same trip,
mossies were everywhere. I mean all over. My friend was lacking in hair, sans hat. Poor chap looked like he had chicken pox! They were in the food, hair, eyes. You could wipe them off your arm, momentarily to see skin, then in an instant you can't see your own arm!
People were panicking, packing up stuff and just chucking it into their boots. Cars turning up at the site literally just turned around and went!
In the middle of all this, two germans had just unpacked their stuff. Next to their tent they had erected a table, about which they were smoking old Sherlock Holmes style pipes, with an air of "Not like ze mozzies we get at home!" about them!
Bloody tourists!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 11:50, closed)

I've started taking heavy-duty insect repellent and a net for the tent when I'm in the Peaks. Crag and campsite warrant it. Not quite at the net-integral-hat stage yet.

Although I've found a site near a railway line which is less bad than most.
(Galve, Son of Galve, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 11:57, closed)